Posted by: View an alternate. June 17, 2015 at 19:33, Hi, I think i have these adult chafer beetles, they come out on a warm day flying around, absolutely loads of them. What do you suggest I do, will the winter kill them off?? Search Ebay.com for Imidacloprid / Merit. Go on, be brave and set about exploring in the soil beneath the grass roots…. The Rose chafer is a large, broad beetle that is found in grassland, scrub and along woodland edges. Hi all. If the birds and other mammals such as Badgers and Foxes are dining out on your lawn then this is one of the reasons why your lawn might be suddenly listed on the Egon Ronay 'Good Lawn Food Guide'.... Chafer Beetle Larvae are the larvae of the Common Chafer Beetle or more commonly known as the May Bug that can be seen flying around on warm early summer evenings. March 01, 2014 at 17:30. A photograph of a summer chafer Amphimallon solstitialis. Control them by applying an insecticide as soon as you have performed a positive identification, usually in the growing season – April to September. Here’s why; It’ll remove any excess lawn thatch and open the soil up to create a bed on which to grow new grass seed. Failing this use a nematode to kill the vine weevil. Mountfield Lawn Mowers - Need a Mountfield Lawn Mower? August 01, 2011 at 10:23. The inch-long creepy crawlies have been living underground for the last four years and living off larva. Like it? The adults feed on flowers, particularly Dog Roses, during the summer and autumn, and can be spotted in warm, sunny weather. Reply - blimey, they must have nested. In June lots of chewed up leaves and flowers may mean a … Most do not cause problems, some feed on decomposing vegetable matter and help nutrient cycling. (I'm in Turkey, so the sun is hot).Any help greatly appreciated! Tell your friends! June 08, 2015 at 10:43, Aarrggghhh please help. May 07, 2016 at 08:58. Posted by: June 22, 2010 at 12:51. It has a black thorax, rusty brown wing cases and brown legs, and the tail end of the abdomen is narrowly pointed. Reply - ask your lawn care company to apply BAYER Merit which is the same active as Bayer Provado. You raise a lot of questions in my head; you wrote an excellent post, but this post is also mind provoking, and I will have to think about it a bit more; I will return soon. Check your lawn for tan beetles, called masked chafers, in the evening during late summer. I do not wish to use any chemicals, but wonder if turning the compost repeatedly and exposing these eggs to the for a week or so will render the eggs non-viable? (Name and email address are required. It would be sae to use the compost thouge as you could discard any that you spot in the process of moving the compost. What would people advise as a preventative measure please? As Chafers live in the soil for up to three years you can have more than one generation in the soil at any given time. September 17, 2015 at 16:53. Posted by: Reply - the birds may be after the worms. We would be interested in your success feedback! Part of this difference may occur because the European chafer spends a longer portion of the summer feeding on turf. June 17, 2010 at 11:37. 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